Djerman Gvishiani
Djerman (German, Dzhermen, Jerman) Gvishiani is the son of senior KGB official Mikhail Gvishiani. His first name is a combination of Dzerzhinsky and Menzhinsky.
Senior scientific post
In 1973 Djerman Gvishiani was Deputy chairman of of the Soviet Council of Ministers for Science and Technology.[1]
CPSU Central Committee
Kosygin made his son-in-law Djerman Gvishiani an academician, a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee and Chairman of the State Committee for Economic Ties.
All-Union Institute for Systems Research
In 1977, then deputy chairman of the State Committee of Science and Technology, founded and the All-Union Institute for Systems Research, becoming the organization's first director.
According to AISR staffer Egor Gaidar, the idea was to create a "Soviet analogue to the Rand corporation, bringing together talented economists, mathematicians, systems analysts, philosophers, and organizational experts to conduct serious theoretical studies and to propose solutions for complex national problems."
- The presence of Djerman Gvishiani, Kosygin's son-in-law, guaranteed that within both the formal and informal hierarchies of Soviet society at the time, the institute would be well connected and therefore enjoy relative ideological autonomy.[2]